I enjoyed seeing Putin saying how there's a Fifth Column of western-leaning influencers in Russia, who might not directly benefit from the west but have taken on it's core values and memes and need to be cleansed.

Hopefully "Fifth Column" is just a western translation coz the phrase is from the Spanish Civil War and if Putin used that phrase it that might indicate his brain has taken on Western ideas and values and metaphors.

@pre Huh, I had no idea this phrase originated there. In Poland, and I suspect also Russia, it is used almost exclusively to refer to WW2 nazi collaborators. This explains why my grandpa wasn't able to tell me what the first 4 columns were...

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